Hebrew English Bilingual Old Testament-PR-KJV/FL

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Summary: Excellent for OT textus receptus studies
Review: The significance of this facing translation Hebrew-English Old Testament is that it provides the Hebrew received text ("textus receptus" or "TR") from which many Old Testaments in Christian Bibles were translated. Those favoring the TR (and who are thus likely to distrust the Ben Asher edition) will appreciate that this is the Ben Chayyim edition, published by Daniel Bomberg in 1524-25, republished by Meir Letteris in 1866. This edition is also known as the Second Great Rabbinic Bible. Judging by the high print quality, it appears the modern publisher (the British and Foreign Bible Society, not the American Bible Society as the book description states above) took the time to reset the Hebrew portion, and this makes the Hebrew very crisply rendered and a pleasure to read.

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Summary: Not what I was expecting, but still worth it.
Review: When I had purchased this book, I originally thought that it would contain not only the English translation and the Hebrew on the both sides of the same page, line by line, but I also expected that it would have pronunciation keys and marks to aid in reading any given passage in Hebrew. I figured, since the title was "Hebrew-Bilingual Old Testament" that it would have such features, but it didn't. In any event, this book is still worth getting though. The Hebrew is clear and easy to read and each verse in English (KJV) is numbered, corresponding to the Hebrew equivalent. This book is NOT an interlinear, but you may want to purchase one so that you can easily trace the word-for-word Hebrew/English translations of each word. I recommend getting the "The Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament," by Kohlenberger, as a supplement to this book. Also this book opens up backwards since Hebrew reads from right to left. All in all, this is a great purchase and it is much smaller and more handy to use than most bilingual editions.